Cookies for breakfast? You bet! As Laura from Heavenly Homemakers stated so well, “Who decided that sugar coated sugar dobbers and frosted sprinked poptarts were the best way to start the day? I also want to know why the aforementioned choices…or a pancake drenched in syrup is considered a great breakfast food…yet an apple pie is considered to be a dessert.” She is so right. Homemade pies and cookies with wholesome ingredients such as whole wheat flour and honey, is much better for our children then sugary cereals and poptarts, which are full of preservatives and additives. My family really likes these so I usually make two batches a month. They’re that good.
Breakfast Cookies
1 cup butter, melted
1 cup honey
2 eggs
1 t. salt
1 t. cinnamon
1 t. baking soda
1 t. vanilla
½ cup buttermilk
2 cups whole wheat flour (I used 1/2 wheat and 1/2 white flour)
2 cups whole rolled oats
1 cup raisins or chocolate chips
Mix butter, honey, eggs, salt, cinnamon, soda, vanilla and buttermilk. Stir in flour and oats. Fold in raisins or chocolate chips. Scoop heaping tablespoons of dough onto a cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Allow cookies to cool 3-4 minutes on cookie sheet before removing cookies to cool on a wire rack. Makes 18 large cookies.
*To soak the grain in these cookies before baking (in order to help them to digest better):
Melt and cool butter. In a glass bowl, stir together flour, oats, butter and cultured buttermilk. Add a bit more buttermilk than the 1/2 cup the recipe calls for if the grains are not all moistened. Cover and let the grains soak overnight. Stir in the remaining ingredients in the morning and bake as directed.
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Yours turned out so much better than mine did! Mine look like puffed balls :)
did you soak yours? soaking scares me…I don't know why! I guess I just don't understand how to do it.However, these look yum and I would score extra points with my little man if I gave him these for breakfast!!
Candi~ How cool! Were they cooked all the way through? Did you soak them? I'm just really interested in why the did that to you.Tara~ My kids LOVE eating these for breakfast. They think they're getting a treat, when actually they're eating something good for them. Don't be afraid of the soaking process, it's very easy to do. I start mine soaking at night before I go to bed, then finish them up in the morning while the kids get ready for school. They're pretty soft when you first get them out of the oven, and need a little time to firm up. They are a soft cookie though.
PS: I use 1/2 wheat and 1/2 white flour. I'm still getting my family used to eating whole wheat.
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